Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of the poem he functions less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader ...
... metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of the poem he functions less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader ...
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... metrist , is one poet who is quite deliberately weighing and measuring feet in his famous passage from " An Essay on Criticism ” de- signed to illustrate the first of our principles , the re- inforcement of effects of weight or ...
... metrist , is one poet who is quite deliberately weighing and measuring feet in his famous passage from " An Essay on Criticism ” de- signed to illustrate the first of our principles , the re- inforcement of effects of weight or ...
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... metrist in " A Simile for Her Smile , " where almost every variation convinces us that it issues from the pressure of the poem's internal dynamics : Your smiling , or the hope , the thought of it , Makes in / my mind such pause and ab ...
... metrist in " A Simile for Her Smile , " where almost every variation convinces us that it issues from the pressure of the poem's internal dynamics : Your smiling , or the hope , the thought of it , Makes in / my mind such pause and ab ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action actual aesthetic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions Copyright critical device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poem poet's Pope position principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical Sapphic Sapphic stanza scansion seems sense sestet Shakespearean shape song sort sound Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification W. H. Auden white space William words Wordsworth's Yeats